Straw-burning cook-stove



(No Model.)

Gr. LAUBE. STRAW BURNING 000K STOVB.

No. 422,951. Patented Mar. 11, 18910.l

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GoDEEIED LAURE, oF HURoN, `(DAKOTA TEnR1ToRY,) souri-I DAKOTA.

.STRAW-BURNING COOK-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,951, dated March 11, 1890.

Application filed May 13, 1889. Serial No. 310,594. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GODERIED LAUBE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Huron, Beadle county, Territory of Dakota, have invented a certain4 new and useful Imprvement in Straw-Burning Cook-Stoves, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a cooking-stove of simple construction, which will permit the use of straw or hay'as fuel or burn Wood or coal in the customary Way. Such stoves are especially designed to meet the demands and necessities of aprairie country, where Wood and coal are scarce and hay and straw are usually abundant.

In carrying out my invention I employ the ordinary low-oven stove-body, having a lire pot and grate for woodand coal, and make certain features of an especial construction for the application of a straw-burner. To this end the top plate of the stove-body is extended a considerable distance beyond the fire-pot, and the front vertical Wall is provided with an opening' directly under the top plate leading into the lire-pota The strawburner is in the form of a magazine, having a draft-tube in its bottom and an opening in its top or side adapted to register With the opening in the front of the stove-body and burn the straw or hay from the top downward against the draft. The magazine may be supported in position in any suitable Way. A relay of magazines is provided in order to aiford a continuous firea In. the drawings l have shown my preferred construction, therein like letters referring to like parts.

Figure 1 is a vertical section from front to rear, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig, 3 a plan, of a stove embodying my invention.

A, B, C, D, and E are respectively bottom,

back, side, front, and top plates of the stovebody.

a are the supporting-legs. F is the oven, and F the doors of the same. G is the fire-pot, with grate-bars g and doors G. y

H is the ash-pit, and I-l the ash-pan therein.

The front Wall D is provided with an opening CZ directly under the top plate and leading over the lire-pot, The top plate E is provided with a forward extension E', extending to a considerable distance from the front wall.

c are pot-holes in the top plate E.

K is the strawburning magazine, which is preferably semi-cylindrical in form, having an open topand cut away on its flat side at its top' end, so as to form an opening K. lt is also provided at its bottom with a drafttube K for the admission of air.

L is a shelf or platform for holding the magazine in position, of any suitable con struction. As shown, it is formed integral with the bottom plate of the stove and extendsboutWard a like distance with the topplate extension. The magazine rests on the shelf L and lits against the under side of the top-plate extension E', with its opening K in registration with the opening d in the front wall of the stove. A suitable means is prodownward in the magazine against the draft and the flames and heated gases are thrown directly in contact with the cooking utensils.

Vhen it is desired to use wood or coal, the magazine is removed and the openin g d closed by turning up the plate M.

Vhat l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

A cooking stove adapted to the use of straw, hay, Wood, or coal as fuel, consisting, essentially, of a suitable stove-body having a wood and coal fire-pot, and a baking-oven constructed with an extended top plate and ing to the pot-nues, substantially as dehaving an opening in its Wall leading to the scribed.

pot-fines and a removable straw or hay burning magsizine adapted to fit against the unv GODFRIED LAUBE 5 dei' side of said extended top plate and hzw- In presence offing an opening adapted to register with said FRED FORGET,

opening in the plate of the stove-body lead- FRED H. PARKS. 

